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Close followers of Buffalo's bustling theater scene will not be surprised to learn that another group of young and energetic actors has formed a company. Second Generation Theatre, as the new group is known, will host its first major public event, a fundraiser, Sunday in Pettibones Grill. The fundraiser will help offset the costs of its ambitious June production of "Into the Woods."
The company is a shared project of actors and University at Buffalo graduates Kelly Copps, Arin Lee Dandes and Kristin Bentley. The company formed, its founders said, in order to build off the creative momentum of the regional theater community and to bring the creative energy of a younger generation to the scene. The idea of producing Stephen Sondheim's fractured fairy tale "Into the Woods," a large and complex affair which hasn't appeared here since the early 1990s, arose out of the trio's shared love of the show and a great deal of interest from others in the theater community.
"We never intended to start with a show so large," Copps said. "But if we can do it right and start with a bang … What better way to start?"
Sunday's fundraiser will feature performances from the cast of "Into the Woods" as well as music by the Albrights, Hotel Bravo and Tim Britt. – Colin Dabkowski
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
15 comments:
- trishie said...
Love the collection of pets in window photos. It is strangely enchanting. Also approve of the catprint dress 100%
- June 5, 2012 at 3:23 AM
- Pink Ronnie said...
Those photos are so cute!!!
I'm a huge fan of Leah Goren too. Have three of her tops! I would've loved her popular cat print dress too but it sold out before I could order one. :(
Ronnie xo
- June 5, 2012 at 6:41 AM
- Amy Turman said...
Pets peeking through windows is definitely one of my favorite things. My dog used to sit on an end table outside our large bay window at home and wait for people to come home.
Nothing better than coming home to a furry friend!
mon amy
- June 5, 2012 at 12:39 PM
- Jenna said...
Aw, these are adorable shots!
I love Leah Goren too! I have a mushroom top that she did! Get it!! I want the polar bear!
- June 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM
- Cassie @ WittyTitleHere.com said...
Aww, I LOVE those photos! I have one similar that I posted on my blog a month or two ago. Just a random Baltimore dog looking out the door at me. :) I think animals are my favorite subjects... their expressions say a lot. And that dress? Yeah, buy it.
- June 5, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Adorable! I love the photos, especially the cats--and I'm coveting that cat-print dress, too, now!
- June 5, 2012 at 2:22 PM
- satsuki shibuya said...
haha! aww, these images remind me of our little skippy who always is peeking out the window. sometimes i think he's trying to be sneaky, but in actuality i can see his head sticking out from behind our curtain a mile away!
& that dress is on my wish list too...
- June 5, 2012 at 3:36 PM
- Kathy said...
Oh gosh, those faces! They are so cute and yet they break my heart a little bit.
And I think that dress would be such an investment. I love the cut, that pleat in the front, and you can wear different colored tights and a sweater/long-sleeved shirt underneath for fall and winter!
- June 5, 2012 at 6:02 PM
- Shoko said...
Thanks for the encouragement, guys - I think I really am going to get it! :)
- June 5, 2012 at 8:11 PM
I totally approve of a dress with polar bears on it, and if anyone can pull it off, it's you.
- June 5, 2012 at 8:39 PM
- About said...
cat dress is purrfect...sorry had to do it! i love seeing all those sweet faces in the windows! our little furbaby often waits in the window for when we return. so sweet.
- June 5, 2012 at 9:54 PM
- Shoko said...
Brianna, aw, thank you!
Deirdre, I love the term "furbaby." So, so cute.
- June 5, 2012 at 10:59 PM
- Lisa Sperling said...
Aw - how very sweet! I too would love to have a pet (preferably a dog :)) And I love the cat print dress! (oooh, Anthropologie!!!)
- June 6, 2012 at 12:21 AM
- RaquelDoesLife said...
Cuuuute! I always wonder what animals are thinking while they're gazing out the window. I want a pet so badly...but our building doesn't allow them, and even if we moved to a pet friendly space, we don't have the money. Le sigh...someday.
- June 6, 2012 at 12:25 AM
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I love these photos!! :)
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The American League prevailed in the end, picking up a 5-3 win at a packed Target Field. "It was amazing," Hernandez said. "One of the best experiences of my life. It was a special night for me and my family." So if the Mariners make it to the World Series, something that seems far less implausible than it did at the beginning of the season, he'll be able to start Game 1 at Safeco Field with the home field advantage. "That works, doesn't it?" said teammate Kyle Seager. Under the scoring rules of the All-Star Game, Hernandez was in line to get the win after throwing a scoreless top of the first inning and his teammates giving him a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the inning. Hernandez gave up an infield single to the ultra speedy Andrew McCutchen to start the game. McCutchen hit a bullet to shortstop where Derek Jeter was able to make a brilliant diving stop, but his throw was late. Hernandez locked in, striking out Yasiel Puig and Troy Tulowitzki on nasty changeups and then getting Paul Goldschmidt to ground out to third to end his outing. "I was a little nervous but felt good and settled in," he said. A Mike Trout RBI triple and a two-run homer gave Hernandez a 3-0 lead. The last time Hernandez was given a 3-0 lead in the first inning was on June 20, 2013 in Anaheim. He actually took the loss in the game. Blowing a seven-run lead. This wasn't quite a dramatic or frustrating. Jon Lester gave up two runs in the second inning and Chris Sale gave up another run in the fourth that tied the game and gave Hernandez a no decision. Like in the regular season, Hernandez shrugged off the idea of getting the win since his team won in the end. "Sure, it would have been good," he said. "But there's some pretty good players on the other side to. It was a fun night and I was happy how things went for me and the guys." The American League broke the 3-3 tie in the bottom of the fifth. Trout doubled home Derek Norris and Jose Altuve scored Alexei Ramirez with a deep sacrifice fly to left field. The AL kept the 5-3 lead with seven pitchers, including teammate Fernando Rodney, combining to work the final four innings without allowing a run. In a nice touch by Farrell, the Twins' battery of catcher Kurt Suzuki and closer Glen Perkins were inserted in the top of the ninth to secure the win. Perkins worked a 1-2-3 ninth to get the save. Detroit's starter Max Scherzer, who started the All-Star Game last year, got the win in relief, pitching a scoreless fifth inning. Of course, the night still belonged to Derek Jeter. It was apparent in the days leading up to the game. Countless words were written about the narrative of his last all-star game in a storied career. After a two-minute standing ovation, Derek Jeter lined the firs pitch he saw from NL starter Adam Wainwright into right field for a double. The pitch from Wainwright was a belt-high, 90-mph cookie of a fastball that split the plate in half. Jeter didn't miss it. It was reminiscent of the pitch Chan Ho Park delivered to Cal Ripken Jr. during the 2001 All-Star Game at Safeco Field. Ripken, who was also on a farewell tour of a final season that year, hit a two-run homer and was named the MVP. Wainwright admitted he eased up for Jeter. "I was gonna give him a couple pipe shots. He deserved it," Wainwright told reporters. "I didn't know he was gonna hit a double or I might have changed my mind." NL manager Mike Matheny tried to defray that notion postgame. "I know that has been completely blown out of proportion and taken out of context," Matheny said. "Anybody that knows anything about this guy knows that he's one of the greatest competitors that played this game in a long time." 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Civil servants vote for pay strike
The Government is facing a strike by civil servants after they voted in favour of industrial action over pay, pensions and working conditions.
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union backed walkouts by 61% and other forms of industrial action by four to one. Turnout was 28%.
The union's leadership will now discuss a programme of strikes and protests, with a decision expected on Wednesday. The ballot result raises the threat of industrial action by Government employees at around the time of the Budget later this month.
The union said that since the onset of the recession in 2008, the real value of wages in the public and private sectors had fallen by 7%. Median pay in the civil service was 4.4% lower than similar jobs in private firms, rising to 10% for some grades.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "Civil and public servants are working harder than ever to provide the services we all rely on but, instead of rewarding them, the Government is cutting their pay, raiding their pensions and trying to rip up their basic working conditions.
"We said more than two years ago that austerity wouldn't work and we have been proved right. Under this Tory-led Government, our economy has flatlined, we are heading for a triple-dip recession and the Chancellor has lost his prized AAA credit rating. We urgently need to invest our way out of recession, with an end to the economically disastrous pay freeze and job cuts and with a serious clampdown on tax avoidance and evasion."
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Visualforce on Chromecast, as a Service!
After writing my last blog entry, on how to display any Visualforce Page on Google Chromecast, it occured to me that I could run the app on Heroku. So, if you have a Google Chromecast, and a Salesforce login with API access enabled, you can try it out right now.
Go to https://vf-chromecast.herokuapp.com/; you'll see this page:
Follow the instructions, log in, authorize the app to access your data, and you'll be able to select a Visualforce Page to 'cast' to your TV.
One new feature here - if you select a Visualforce Page that uses a standard controller, and is thus expecting a record ID as a parameter, you'll get the opportunity to select a record. For simplicity, I'm just showing the first 10 records returned by the database.
Choose a record, hit send, and you'll see the page displayed by the Chromecast, in this case, it's a Mini Hack we ran a couple of Dreamforces ago:
As always, the code is on GitHub.
Having done Raspberry Pi, Minecraft, and now Chromecast, I'm looking for new ideas for interesting Salesforce integrations. Leave a comment if you think of one!
Display ANY Visualforce Page on Google Chromecast
Last time, I described how I ran a simple 'Hello World' application, served from a Force.com Site, on the Google Chromecast, a $35 digital media player. In this blog entry, I'll show you how to show any Visualforce page, not just a public page on a Force.com Site, on the Chromecast.
A quick recap... (Skip this paragraph if you've already read the previous entry). Chromecast is actually a tiny wifi-enabled Linux computer, running the Chrome browser, connected to a TV or monitor via HDMI. A 'receiver' app, written in HTML5, runs on the device, which has no input capability (mouse/keyboard), while a 'sender' app runs on a 'second screen' such as a laptop, smartphone, or tablet, the two apps communicating across the local wifi network via a message bus. The sender app typically allows the user to navigate content and control the media stream shown on the Chromecast (the 'first screen'). The CastHelloText-chrome sample allows the user to type a message in the sender app on the first screen, and displays it on the second screen via the receiver app.
Given a working sample, the next question was, how to access data from the receiver app? The core problem is that the Chromecast can only load a public web page - it can't login to Force.com. The sender app runs on a desktop browser, smartphone or tablet, however, so perhaps it would be possible to login there, and send a session ID to the receiver app via the message bus? I worked through a few alternatives before I hit on the optimal solution:
Load the Visualforce page via Frontdoor.jsp
Frontdoor.jsp, which has existed for some time, but has only been formally documented and supported since the Winter '14 Salesforce release, "gives users access to Salesforce from a custom Web interface, such as a remote access Force.com site or other API integration, using their existing session ID and the server URL".
To authenticate users with frontdoor.jsp, you pass the server URL and session ID to frontdoor.jsp in this format:
Sounds perfect! The only problem is that the session ID you pass to frontdoor.jsp must come from one of:
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- The Apex UserInfo.getSessionId()
The session ID from a Visualforce page or controller isn't going to cut it here. So, I reached for Kevin O'Hara's excellent nforce and built a quick Node.js sender app that has the user authorize API access via OAuth (including web scope!), runs a query for the list of Visualforce Pages in the org and presents them as a drop-down list. You can choose a Visualforce Page, hit 'Send', and the sender app constructs the frontdoor URL with the OAuth access token and relative URL for the page and sends it to the receiver via the message bus.
Note that, while you can indeed send any Visualforce page to the Chromecast for display, remember that the Chromecast doesn't have any capacity for user input, so tables and charts work best.
I tried a couple of approaches for the receiver app; first I simply redirected to the frontdoor URL, but then I realized that it would be more useful to load the frontdoor URL into a full-page iframe. That way, the receiver app could stay running in the 'top' document, ready to receive a different URL, and periodically reloading the iframe so that the session doesn't time out. Here it is in action:
All of the code is in my CastDemo project on GitHub. Feel free to fork it, extend it, and let me know in the comments how it works out.
When it came down to the code, this was a very straightforward integration; the vast majority of the work was thinking around the problem of how to have a device with no input capability authenticate and load a Visualforce page. Now that Frontdoor.jsp is documented and supported, it's an essential tool for the advanced Force.com developer.
POSTSCRIPT: Almost as soon as I hit 'publish' on this post, I realized I could push the app to Heroku, and allow anyone with a Chromecast and API access to Salesforce to see their Visualforce Pages on TV. Read the next installment here.
Getting Started with Chromecast on Visualforce
About a month ago, Google released the Google Cast SDK, allowing developers to create apps that run on the Chromecast, a $35 digital media player. The primary use case of Chromecast is to stream media - movies, TV shows, music and the like - via wifi to your HDMI TV/monitor, but, looking at the SDK docs, it became apparent that the Chromecast is actually a miniature ('system-on-chip') computer running Chrome OS (a Linux variant) and the Chrome browser. If it's running a browser, I wondered, could it load Visualforce pages from Salesforce and display, for example, a chart based on live data? If so, this would allow any HDMI-capable TV or monitor to be used as a dashboard at very low cost. When I was given a Chromecast by a colleague (thanks, Sandeep!) in return for alpha testing his app, I decided to find out!
This first blog post explains how I ran a simple 'Hello World' sample on the Chromecast, loading the app from Visualforce. Next time, I'll show you how I pulled data from Salesforce via the REST API and showed it as a chart.
Chromecast setup was pretty straightforward - a matter of connecting the device to an HDMI input on my TV and a USB power source, downloading and running the Chromecast app, and following the prompts to complete setup. The Chromecast app locates the device on the local network using the DIAL protocol. Note that, since the app is communicating directly with the device, it won't work on wifi networks that enforce AP/Client Isolation (many offices and hotels).
After installing the Cast Extension for Chrome and verifying that the Chromecast could display content from YouTube, it was time to put the device into development mode! This actually proved to be pretty tricky - you need to enter the Chromecast's serial number into the Google Cast SDK Developer Console. Sounds straightforward, but the serial number is laser etched into the Chromecast's black plastic case in very small type indeed. I entered it incorrectly the first time round, and had to take a photo of the serial number and zoom in to see that the last character was an S and not an 8!
Another gotcha I encountered is that it's necessary to go into the Chromecast settings (in the Chromecast app) and enable Send this Chromecast's serial number when checking for updates. This information is on a separate page from the device registration instructions, so it's easy to miss.
Now my Chromecast showed up in the developer console, it was time to get an app running. Since the Chromecast has no input devices (keyboard, mouse, etc), a 'receiver app' running in an HTML5 page on the device is controlled by a 'sender app' running on a 'second screen' such as a laptop, smartphone or tablet. The two apps are connected over the local network by a message bus exposed by the Google Cast SDK.
Looking through the samples, CastHelloText-chrome looked like the simplest example of a custom receiver. In the sample, the sender app, running on an HTML5 page in Chrome, allows you to enter a message ('Hello World' is traditional!) and sends it on the bus. The receiver app displays the message, and reflects it back to the sender, to demonstrate the bidrectional nature of the bus.
It was straightforward to convert the vanilla HTML pages to Visualforce - the first change was to wrap the entire page in an tag and remove the
DOCTYPE, since Visualforce will supply this when it renders the page.
<apex:page docType="html-5.0" applyHtmlTag="false" applyBodyTag="false" showHeader="false" sidebar="false" standardStylesheets="false" cache="false"> <!-- <!DOCTYPE html> --> <html> ...rest of the page... </html> </apex:page>
Visualforce doesn't like HTML attributes with no value, so, in
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<input id="input" type="text" size="30" onwebkitspeechchange="transcribe(this.value)" x-webkit-speech/>
<input id="input" type="text" size="30" onwebkitspeechchange="transcribe(this.value)" x-webkit-speech="true"/>
Adding the Visualforce pages to a Force.com Site made them public on the web. This is important - the Chromecast can only load public web pages - it has no way of authenticating to a server. You'll find out in the next blog post how I was able to access the Force.com REST API to securely retrieve content.
Once I had a pair of public pages, I registered my sample app, entering the public URLs for my Visualforce pages, and pasted the resulting app ID into the
chromehellotext page. Loading that page gave me a text control into which I could type a message. Hitting return to submit the message pops up the Cast device selector.
I selected my device from the list, and - 'BAM!' - my message popped up on the TV screen - success!
One very nice feature of the Chromecast is that it allows remote debugging in Chrome. You can find the device's IP address in the Chromecast app, say 192.168.1.123, and simply go to port 9222 at that address, in my example, http://192.168.1.123:9222/.
You get the usual Chrome developer tools, right down to the ability to set breakpoints and inspect variables in JavaScript - marvelous!
I've published the sample app, so you can try it out yourself. If you have a Chromecast, go to my sender app page; you should be able to connect to your device and send a message.
At this point, I had to do some thinking. The Chromecast, as I mentioned before, loads a page from a public web server. How could I show data on the page, preferably without making the data itself publicly available? Read on to the next post!
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Los Angeles County is scheduled for the third time next week to decide whether or not to sign a 5-year, $75 million dollar contract that would ship inmates from Southern California to Taft and pump hundreds of thousands of dollars into the city and the local economy each year.
Twice before the L.A. County Board of Supervisors have been scheduled to approve the deal and twice they have tabled it, leading to some speculation that the contract may not get approved before the November election – if at all.
City officials here in Taft are hoping the third time is the charm.
The CCF has been closed for nearly 10 months and the city has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in income and paid out several hundred thousand dollars in unemployment costs for the employees that lost their jobs.
City officials have been optimistic since a tentative agreement was reached in early August that the Community Correctional Facility would reopen.
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The proposed contract was tabled at a meeting on Aug. 14 right after the Taft City Council unanimously approved it.
It was tabled a second time at the Sept. 4 meeting.
The CCF contract is back on the agenda for the Sept. 25 meeting of the L.A. County Supervisors and again it is included in the consent agenda.
Items placed on consent agendas are usually considered routine and non controversial, so the fact that the contract has been tabled twice is somewhat unusual.
Both the L.A. County Sheriff's and executive officer are recommending approval.
The CCF was closed in November 2011 after AB109, the prison realignment bill, was passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The law dramatically reduced the number of lower security inmates in the state prison system and resulted in the closure of the Taft CCF and three others in Shafter, Delano and Coalinga.


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BOTKINS — For a brief time, Botkins controlled Monday's match against New Bremen, but elsewhere mistakes by the Trojans were too much to overcome in their 3-1 loss to the visiting Cardinals in non-league varsity volleyball play Monday.
New Bremen took the match in four games with scores of 25-13, 21-25, 25-17 and 25-16.
"This is a tough team," Botkins varsity coach Bryan Trego said about New Bremen. "There's no shame losing to them. They play a lot of tough teams throughout the year."
In Game 4, needing to rally with two straight wins, Botkins did all it could early on.
Neither team led by more than two points until New Bremen led 16-13. From there, the Cardinals posted a 9-3 run to clinch the match.
"They went from a two to three-point lead where we were keeping it close to that five-point spread (20-15)," Trego said. "We called a timeout. New Bremen went on a 5-1 run to end it. That's where we needed to make a run."
New Bremen rolled to a 25-13 win in Monday's first game.
The Cardinals had a strong start in Game 2, holding a 13-7 lead.
Botkins eventually rallied for six straight points to take the lead at 16-15.
New Bremen led once more at 18-16 before Botkins finished the game with a 9-3 run.
Botkins' Jocelyn Counts registered two straight aces with the score 18-17, New Bremen, to propel her team to the win in Game 2.
"Jocelyn is probably one of my best servers," Trego said. "She puts the ball exactly where I want to 90 percent of the time. There not always aces, and those don't always show up.
"It gets the other team out of their system, especially when you can take a dynamic player like Julie Brown out of the mix," he said. "To take her out of the offense, that's pretty solid for us. When we had that run, Jocelyn was accountable for a lot of it."
Trego discussed adjustments made that allowed his team to be competitive in Game 2 as opposed to other times in the match.
"We made some defensive adjustments. We were able to run more offense out of defense," Trego said. "We were digging the ball, getting it to the setter and doing things we knew we could do.
"When you do what you want to do, then you can score some points," he said. "When you're at their mercy, we've got to sit back and dig every ball."
Game 3 was tied at 6-6 before New Bremen went on a 4-0 run that provided cushion in the 25-17 win.
"We had 26 negative hits and 10 missed serves. That's 36 points. That's way too many," Trego said. "Our serve percentage was 86 percent and we've got to execute better than that. When we got the serve, we were able to do some things, and if we got our serve-receive going to run our offense, it was a tough rally."
Sami Vehorn led Botkins with eight kills. Blake Maurer had seven assists, while Counts added five. Allison Guckes recorded 25 digs.
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Pioneer Pro DJ and DJ Times magazine are pleased to announce the launch of the fourth annual America's Best DJ (ABDJ) competition and summer tour.
America's Best DJ gives U.S.-based DJs a chance to shine just as brightly as their European contemporaries. The U.S. is the birthplace of dance music, the origin of club culture, and the biggest entertainment market in the world. Its DJs deserve a contest of their own.
As selected by the staff of DJ Times, this year's TOP 100 U.S. DJs – and contenders for the title of America's Best DJ – represent every possible style from Bhangra to Booty-tech. Online Voting Begins May 1, so dance music fans are encouraged to visit www.americasbestdj.net and vote for their favorite DJs!
Supporting the online vote, a 20-city tour—dubbed America's Best DJ Summer Tour Presented by Pioneer Pro DJ—kicks off Saturday, May 2, at Pacha NYC with New York's own DJ Boris. Co-sponsor DJ Times will be at Pacha, taking in-person votes for the ultra-popular Boris and showing off Pioneer's unique DVJ-1000 "DVD turntable."
The ABDJ Summer Tour, which runs May through August, expects to attract nearly 150,000 music fans nationwide—and all voters will be eligible to win prize packages that include a trip for two to ABDJ's closing party/award ceremony September 12 in Las Vegas. ABDJ votes will be tallied up through August 9 and the winning DJ will, of course, be flown to Las Vegas for the closing party/award ceremony—exciting details to be announced soon!
The complete ABDJ Summer Tour will be announced shortly. For details, please visit www.americasbestdj.net. Stay tuned!
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TAH Project Database
New Jersey's Camden City and Camden Diocese districts operate in one of the nation's poorest cities, where 29 of the 33 schools are in need of improvement. Teachers who have had limited access to [...] »
In this southeastern New Jersey district, nearly 30 percent of the population lives in poverty and all seven of Bridgeton's schools have been identified as in need of improvement. Fellows will [...] »
A recent survey of teachers in these New Jersey school districts revealed an interest in interacting with historical experts and participating in professional development regarding primary source [...] »
This northern Nevada district covers 6,600 square miles and includes extremely rural to truly urban areas. A population boom, growing ethnic diversity, a large transient population and lack of [...] »
Teachers will come from three of Montana's largest districts, and will include many who have never participated in focused history professional development and who have the greatest need of support ( [...] »
Missouri certification requirements include minimal study of American history, so many teachers in these St. Louis-area districts lack deep content knowledge in the subject area. Teachers will engage [...] »
Located in southwestern Missouri, the participating districts—mainly small, rural and disadvantaged—have all been targeted for improvement. Each fall and spring, the semester will begin [...] »
In Mississippi schools, students do not learn about post-1877 U.S. history prior to the 11th grade, and few teachers know about or teach the important role Mississippi played in major events like the [...] »
In these Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee districts, only seven percent of professional development opportunities specifically address U.S. history. The project will implement a four-tiered [...] »
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Funeral arrangements made for mother, children found dead in park
Funeral arrangements made for mother, children found dead in park
NEW ALBANY, Ind. —
Funeral arrangements have been announced for a woman and her two children who were found dead in a New Albany park.
Visitation for Jaime, Brandon and Katelyn Clutter will be from 2-5 p.m. Saturday at the Greater Faith Church.
That will be followed by the funeral. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery.
One week ago, their bodies were found in a creek at Binford Park.
An autopsy showed the children drowned.
Investigators are awaiting more detailed information on the mother.
Police are calling it a homicide investigation, although a murder-suicide has not been ruled out.


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By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A day after a bloody crime wave attributed to a former Los Angeles police officer with a deadly grudge left the city on edge, the man at the center of the drama seemed to vanish on Friday, leaving behind only a few footprints in the snow.
For more than 24 hours, the hunt for 33-year-old Christopher Dorner gripped Southern California as police pursued him through the streets of two Inland Empire communities, descended on a San Diego naval base and combed fruitlessly over a ski resort in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles.
Dorner, a former Navy officer fired by the Los Angeles Police Department in 2008 and said to be heavily armed, is wanted in a crime spree that began on Sunday with the murders of a young couple at the top of a parking structure in the quiet Orange County suburb of Irvine.
Police officials, saying Dorner had made it clear in a rambling Internet manifesto that he was bent on revenge against the department, declared a "tactical alert," in which officers remain on their shifts as long as needed.
Despite saturation news coverage and an exhaustive manhunt across California and other western states, Dorner has not been sighted since about 1:40 a.m. on Thursday - when he is accused of ambushing two policemen at a red light in Riverside, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, killing one and wounding the other.
Since then, the clues to his whereabouts have been confusing, even contradictory.
In the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, apparently skittish police officers in the city of Torrance opened fire on a blue pickup similar to the one Dorner was thought to be driving, wounding two women delivering newspapers.
Meanwhile, electronic signs on jammed Southern California freeways blinked out warnings for motorists to be on the lookout for Dorner's gray Nissan Titan - and call police immediately if they spotted it.
A few hours after the Torrance shooting, Dorner's wallet turned up mysteriously on a San Diego sidewalk, not far from a naval base motel where he had checked in on Tuesday and never checked out.
Authorities swarmed the motel amid frantic TV news reports that Dorner was barricaded inside, but came away empty handed and later said he had not been there on Thursday after all.
Perhaps the strongest lead came that afternoon, when authorities said a pickup truck found burning in the snow on a fire road in the San Bernardino Mountains, near a ski resort and the community of Big Bear Lake, was Dorner's gray Nissan Titan.
Leading away from the scene were tantalizing tracks in the snow, apparently left by the suspect.
But an all-night search of the mountain and some 200 vacant vacation cabins by 125 law enforcement officers using helicopters, dogs and snow tractors failed to turn up any further trace of the suspect. The footprints could only be followed so far, they said, before they were lost on icy ground.
Authorities cleared the ski resort and local schools to reopen on Friday and said they had no idea if Dorner was on the mountain.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Dan Grebler)


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Olivia Wilde treated her funnyman fiance Jason Sudeikis to a racy date night by booking a private room in a New York strip club, according to a report.
The actress is said to have hired two pole dancers at the Penthouse Executive Club to perform for her and the Saturday Night Live regular.
A witness at the venue tells the New York Post gossip column Page Six, "Olivia booked the private champagne room with two dancers. She took Jason inside, and while he wasn't allowed to touch the dancers, she could touch them.
"They were in there for two hours, Olivia picked up the entire tab. Jason is a lucky guy."
The stars' wild night out is said to have taken place just over a month ago, after they went public with their engagement in January (13).
Wilde is no stranger to exotic dancing - she played a stripper and gave a lapdance in the 2012 comedy Butter.


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University of North Florida
For the third year in a row, the University of North Florida (UNF) has been named one of the best colleges in the Southeastern United States by the Princeton Review! UNF was established in 1972 and it has distinguished itself by the quality of its academic programs and student support services.
UNF is located in the sunshine state of Florida, just 7 miles from the sandy beaches of the Atlantic Ocean in the city of Jacksonville, a world-class center for finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, and transportation.
UNF offers 58 undergraduate and 26 graduate degree programs with over 100 areas of concentration, including International Business,Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences, Communications, just to name a few. At UNF students are our first priority. As our university motto states: "No one like you. No place like this."
School Information1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, Florida 32224-2645
Locale: City: Large
Open Admissions: Yes
Sector: Public, 4-year or above
Carnegie Basic: Master's Colleges and Universities (larger programs)
Religious Affiliation: Not applicable
Accrediting Agency: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Common name(s): UNF
Students & Faculty
Total Tuition $32,445.00
SAT Scores:
25th-75th percentile530-620 530-620 500-590
ACT Scores:
25th-75th percentile23-26
Note: 25th-75th percentile ranges show the range of scores achieved by the middle 50% of students who were admitted to the school.
Other Requirements:
Degrees & Programs
|Applied Mathematics, General
|Art Teacher Education
|Art/Art Studies, General
|Athletic Training/Trainer
|Banking and Financial Support Services
|Biology/Biological Sciences, General
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Kelly Costello Allison
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director of Education, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
3535 Market St., Suite 3021
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309
Office: 215-898-7314
Fax: 215-898-2878
Fax: 215-898-2878
Education:Permanent link
B.A. (Psychology)
University of Notre Dame, 1995.
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1997.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)
Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2000.
B.A. (Psychology)
University of Notre Dame, 1995.
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1997.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)
Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2000.
Description of Itmat ExpertiseNight Eating Syndrome
Binge Eating Disorder
Disordered Eating
Circadian Eating patterns
Selected PublicationsAllison KC, Sarwer DB, Pare E: Issues related to weight management during pregnancy among overweight and obese women. Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2: 249-254, 2007.
Lundgren JD, Newberg AB, Allison KC, Wintering NA, Ploessl K, Stunkard AJ: 123I-ADAM SPECT imaging of serotonin transporter binding in patients with night eating syndrome: a preliminary report. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 162: 214-220, 2008.
Allison KC, Lundgren JD, O'Reardon JP, Martino NS, Sarwer DB, Wadden TA, Crosby RD, Engel SG, Stunkard AJ: The Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ): psychometric properties of a measure of severity of the night eating syndrome. Eating Behaviors 9(1): 62-72, January 2008 Notes: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.03.007.
Allison KC, Grilo CM, Masheb RM, Stunkard AJ: High self-reported rates of neglect and emotional abuse by persons with Binge Eating Disorder and Night Eating Syndrome. Behaviour Research and Therapy 2007 Notes: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.05.007
Allison KC, Crow SJ, Reeves RR, West DS, Foreyt JP, DiLillo VG, Wadden TA, Jeffery RW, Van Dorsten B, Stunkard AJ and the Eating Disorders Subgroup of the Look AHEAD Research Group: The prevalence of binge eating disorder and night eating syndrome in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Obesity 15: 1285-1291, 2007.
Rogers NL, Dinges DF, Allison KC, Maislin G, Martino N, O'Reardon JP, Stunkard AJ : Assessment of sleep in women with night eating syndrome. Sleep 29: 814-819, 2006.
O'Reardon JP, Allison KC, Martino NS, Lundgren JD, Heo M, Stunkard AJ: A Randomized placebo-controlled trial of sertraline in the treatment of the night eating syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry 163: 893-898, 2006.
Allison KC, Wadden TA, Sarwer DB, Fabricatore AN, Crerand C, Gibbons L, Stack R, Stunkard AJ, Williams N: Night eating syndrome and binge eating disorder among persons seeking bariatric surgery: prevalence and related features. Obesity 14: 77S-82S, 2006 Notes: Co-publication in Surgery for Obesity and Related Disorders, 2006;2:153-158. PMID: 16925341.
Allison KC, Ahima RS, O'Reardon JP, Dinges DF, Sharma V, Cummings DE, Heo M, Martino N, Stunkard AJ: Neuroendocrine Profiles Associated with Energy Intake, Sleep, and Stress in the Night Eating Syndrome. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 90: 6214-6217, 2005.
Allison KC, Stunkard AJ, Thier SL: Overcoming night eating syndrome: A step-by-step guide to breaking the cycle. New Harbinger, 2004.
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The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
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The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania


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BView API
Our vouchers and offers API includes a geocoded searchable data base of local and national vouchers, voucher codes, offers and discounted restaurants and hotels. The service currently allows data to be extracted for UK locations, classifications and general keyword searches. Printable vouchers can be displayed while a non-branded, non-registration booking engine can be called for restaurants and hotels. The API also includes a complete data base of online voucher codes which can be used by voucher doce websites to create one single voucher code feed rather than multiple feeds from affiliates or manual input.


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Cynthia Marie Cotton
Cynthia Marie Cotton, 64, passed away Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at her residence in Sweetwater after an eight month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born Feb. 29, 1948 in Topeka, KS.Cindie is survived by her loving husband of 42 years, Dave Cotton; and her two sons, Adam Cotton and wife Kaci of Parker, Colo. and Ben Cotton and wife Lindsey of Abilene; two sisters, Marcie Beth Lightsey and husband Tony of Broken Arrow, Okla. and Kim Bruening and husband Ron of Topeka, Kan.; and two granddaughters, Lillian and Keely Cotton; and two grandsons, Jackson and Lincoln Cotton.There will be a visitation from 5-7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, at McCoy Funeral Home.Funeral services will be held at Fourth and Elm Church of Christ in Sweetwater on Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 10 a.m. with Doug Crum and Gary Souder officiating. There will be a graveside service at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 at Henry Cemetery near Gallatin, Texas, under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.The family requests, in-lieu-of-flowers, memorials be made to Hendrick Hospice, 1682 Hickory, Abilene, TX 79601.Cindie leaves a Christian Legacy as a loving wife, mother and friend. She was a blessing to many and will be missed by all.Online condolences may be expressed at www.mccoyfh.com.


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Race board Continental Cups in full swing
The last weekend did not only bring a action-packed snowboard cross World Cup in Telluride, Colorado, but also several parallel snowboarding Continental Cups.
Two of them also took place in the US. Steamboat Springs hosted a Parallel Giant Slalom and Parallel Slalom on December 14 and 15.
While Hae-rim Jeong (KOR) in the PGS and Hannah Halsted (USA) in the PSL took the honors on the women's side, it was Justin Reiter (USA) claiming victory in both races on the men's side.
Almost at the same time (Dec 15 and 16), just a few thousands miles away to the East, Ratschings, Italy, hosted two Parallel Slaloms where almost everyone who is anyone of the European elite in race boarding took part in.
Reigning PSL World Champion Hilde-Katrine Engeli (NOR) as well as Natalia Soboleva (RUS) underlined their early form.
On the men's side, Aleksandr Belkin (RUS) and Roland Fischnaller (ITA) took home won win each.
Full results can be found here:


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WhenDanSaysJump wrote:FormicaLinoleum wrote:Yesterday I felt absolutely hideous. I had the worst headache I've had for a very long time. I'm not sure exactly what caused this. Could be withdrawal from caffeine.
I tend to find that the first couple of days of me taking a caffeine break are roughly equivalent to hell on Earth. Or at the very least heck on Earth.
It was horrible! Maybe I should have powered through instead of having tea, but I'm not too concerned about being completely caffeine-free. I mostly want to elimate all the sugar in my usual coffee drinks, so am not having those.


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Ramped Up Crostini with Ricotta and Pea Shoots
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Author Notes: Chopped ramps add crunch, bite and attitude to pristine, fluffy ricotta which is smeared over crostini and topped with a jumble of sweet pea shoots. This simple recipe highlights the freshest ingredients and the contrasting nice and naughty flavors of springtime. If you can't locate ramps in your market, then try substituting spring onions. - TasteFood —TasteFood
Food52 Review: WHO: TasteFood lives in San Francisco and has studied at at Le Cordon Bleu.
WHAT: Springtime crostini with complex flavors that never let on how easy they are to make.
HOW: It's practically just assembly: aromatics -- ramp bulbs, lemon zest, and mint -- are stirred into ricotta that's spooned onto toasted baguette then topped with pea shoots.
WHY WE LOVE IT: You wouldn't think raw ramp bulbs would be appealing, but they are offset so well by the creamy ricotta that FOOD52er Rivka even ate them for breakfast. —The Editors
Serves: 8
1/2" thick slices baguette
extra-virgin olive oil
cup fresh whole milk ricotta
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
cup finely chopped ramps or green garlic, bulbs and stems only (or substitute with the bulb and pale green parts of spring onions)
tablespoon finely chopped mint leaves
teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
generous handful pea shoots
- Preheat oven to 400 F. Lightly brush bagette slices with olive oil. Arrange on baking sheet. Bake in oven until golden brown on both sides, turning once, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove.
- Combine ricotta, 1 tablespoon oil, 1/2 teaspoons salt and black pepper in a bowl; mix well until light and fluffy. Stir in ramps, mint and lemon zest. Spread ricotta on baguette slices.
- Top crostini with a generous pinch of pea shoots. Drizzle a little olive oil over crostini, followed by a squeeze of lemon juice. Sprinkle with a few grains of sea salt and black pepper.
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BARACK Obama was elected in 2008 as a fresh figure who offered voters a seductive message of "hope and change" and a lofty, yet unclear, promise to "fundamentally transform America."
What he has delivered after four years is a damaged nation in need of a new president who can restore economic confidence and job growth. America needs a new president who can return the White House to America's founding principles of individual liberty and limited government.
Mitt Romney is our choice to be that new president to set America right again.
Romney would be the new president we need to unleash the economy and job growth by removing the clouds of uncertainty, over-regulation and taxation created by the current Administration.
Romney would be the new president to heal the wounds that have been inflicted on relationships with our traditional allies abroad. A new president who won't apologize for America, but who will renew the world's respect for America.
Romney would be the new president needed to acknowledge the persistent danger of Islamist extremism and deal straightforwardly with it to keep us and our allies safe.
Most of all, Mitt Romney would be the new president America needs to pull the country back from its transformation to personal dependence on federal government at the cost of individual liberty, individual initiative and personal responsibility.
Mitt Romney would be the president we need to restore common sense in place of utopian visions of redistributing wealth through massive government giveaway programs.
Romney is a good man, and a good American. He is a man of integrity. His career has repeatedly demonstrated the executive leadership ability America needs.
Romney rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from debt and scandal and made it a profitable success. At his business, Bain Capital, he took failing companies and turned them around whenever possible with prudent business practices. As governor of Massachusetts, he started with a state in deficit and left office with a surplus.
Romney became successful and wealthy by virtue of putting his talents to work and being a capable businessman and leader. He also has shared his wealth and his time freely and generously for charitable causes.
As president, Romney has plans to cut the deficit, slow federal spending, trim the size of federal government and end Obamacare. He would reform taxes, end over-regulation, foster trade and domestic energy independence, and free up business to do business and create jobs that will put Americans back to work and back on their own two feet.
Romney and his brilliant running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, will repair the damage and excesses of the past four years and create a climate of business confidence that will set the economy free to roar again.
A Romney presidency will reflect the best of America's heritage. It will make America strong and give it a future of renewed optimism.
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Alumni & Parent Programs
Choir Tour 2014: Portland
Date: 7:00pm PST January 14, 2014
Join Portland area alumni, parents, and friends for a performance by Lewis & Clark's premier mixed choir, Cappella Nova, conducted by Assistant Professor of Music Katherine FitzGibbon.
A hosted dessert reception will follow the performance.
Tuesday, January 14
Performance begins at 7:00 p.m.
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Avenue
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Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Denise Langford Morris ruled Monday that the lawsuit against Novi-based Lotus Bank over racist emails by two bank executives can proceed to trial.
A trial date is scheduled to be set at a hearing on June 9.
Previously, attorneys for both the plaintiffs and the defendants had asked for summary judgment, which Morris ruled against.
"The court finds that the defendants are not entitled to summary disposition because there are genuine issues of material fact regarding whether plaintiffs suffered discrimination and/or been denied full and equal enjoyment of goods and services on the basis of race or national origin," Morris wrote. "The court finds that there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding the issue of damages suffered by plaintiffs."
Both sides had asked for summary judgment on April 16.
On April 30, Morris had postponed the trial, which had been scheduled to start May 27, and urged the attorneys to meet with retired Wayne County Circuit Court Judge James Rashid to facilitate a settlement, but there has been no word on that front.
Patrick McCarthy, of the Royal Oak law firm of Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, represents the bank and its holding company, Lotus Bancorp Inc.
Michael Turco, of the Birmingham law firm of Brooks Wilkins Sharkey & Turco PLLC, represents Lotus Bank CFO Richard Bauer and President Neal Searle.
Elizabeth Thomson of the Bloomfield Hills law firm of Hertz Schram PC, is the lead plaintiffs' attorney.
The case, which was filed in March 2013, claims racist behavior by the executives violated the state's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976 and led, at least in part, to troubles Thomson's clients had in a dispute over a commercial loan.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Jasit Takhar and Anil Gupta. Through their Jackson-based firm, Four Pointe Investments LLC, Takhar and Gupta got a mortgage of nearly $1.5 million from Lotus in 2008 to buy a Travelodge motel in Jackson, but later had trouble making payments.
The case is noteworthy because of allegations of racism by executives of a bank founded in 2007 to serve the needs of the local Asian Indian business community. Most of those who invested in the bank were of Indian descent and most of its board members are Indian.
At the heart of the lawsuit are numerous emails, including:
- On May 24, 2010, Bauer referred to members of the board of the bank as "chimps."
- On June 19, 2010, someone sent Bauer an email offering free tickets to a concert by an Indian singer if he wanted some for his customers. Bauer responded: "Only interested if someone is going to detonate an incendiary device. If so, I will get tics (sic) for all of them."
- On July 9, 2010, Bauer, who was then acting as interim CEO as well as CFO, wrote to a friend: "We are close to hiring a permanent replacement, which can't happen too quickly for me. I just want my job back, and someone else can deal with all these Indians. Working with them really is like herding cats, and I hate cats! … I will leave you with this sage advice from General Custer and most Pakistanis: The only good Indian is a dead Indian."
The Lotus board found out about the emails more than a year before the lawsuit was filed. The executives' pay was cut and they underwent sensitivity training.
Last June, the American Banking Association's ABA Banking Journal ranked Lotus No. 14 of more than 1,200 banks in the U.S. with assets of less than $100 million, based on several metrics, including return on equity, noninterest income growth and ratio of equity to assets.
BauerFinancial Inc., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based rating service that ranks banks and credit unions, has consistently given Lotus its top rating of five stars.
Tom Henderson: (313) 446-0337, [email protected]. Twitter: @tomhenderson2


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One bedroom for rent in Abu-Dhabi (UAE) (Washington, D.C.)
Coming to Abu Dhabi (UAE) for tourist or business needs?
One bedroom for rent in Abu-Dhabi (UAE)
One bedroom with balcony and separate bathroom for short term rental (2 months max)
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Rent includes: water, electricity and wi-fi connection and use of common area (kitchen and living room).
One furnished bedroom (14sqm), capacity of 2 sleeps, in three bedroom apartment, occupied by us - married American-Russian couple.
The bedroom is equipped with Queen-size bed, closet, table and chairs.
The kitchen is fully equipped with fridge, gas cooker and washing machine, microwave.
Secure and quiet neighborhood
Location: down town, Khalidiah area, opposite the Sheraton Khalidiah Hotel (for restaurants, pub, gym, spa, pool), near the Family Park and Corniche (for public beach and jogging), 10 min walk to Khalidiah Mall (for shopping, restaurants, movies, bowling).
Non-smoking only, no pets and no kids allowed.